‘Lay Your Sin at the Foot of Christ’: PA Catholic Priest Abuse Accuser Speaks Out

HARRISBURG (PA)
Fox News

August 15, 2018

As seen on The Story with Martha MacCallum

A man who said he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a retired western Pennsylvania priest spoke out to Martha MacCallum.

The interview came a day after the state attorney general announced a grand jury report on over one thousand similar cases over 70 years.

James Vansickle said he was sexually “groomed” and “attacked” by Father David Poulson when he was a teenager.

Poulson was arrested in March and charged with abusing two boys. He has not entered a plea and waived his right to a preliminary hearing in May.

Vansickle said he had a “long relationship of friendship” and mentorship with Poulson, a priest from Oil City, Pa.

He said that the abuse culminated in a “sexual attack” in a hotel room when he was 16 and traveling with a scholastic chess team.

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